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Vanilla Happiness

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:10:00
Publish Date: 2016-02-19 15:00:00
Description: Adam Gopnik says the secret of happiness lies in unexpected pleasures, like finding yoghourt is vanilla when you expect it to be plain. "Are the intrinsic qualities of something more powerful than the context in which we perceive it, or are what we call intrinsic properties really only the effect of expectations and surprise?" Producer: Sheila Cook.
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